Fix It In Post (Live, 1997-2000)

The Freight Elevator Quartet - Fix It In Post (1997-2000)

released in 2001

Luke Dubois - Max/MSP programming, analog modular synths, guitar, bass, keyboard, effects
Paul Feuer - didjeridoo, keyboards, synth bass, programming
Rachael Finn - cellos, effects
Stephen Krieger - beats, drum machines, keyboard, sampling, effects

The recordings on this CD were taken from nearly four years of live recordings by The Freight Elevator Quartet. This album chronicles the progression of our sound from our first chaotic performance in a 125th st. freight elevator through our performances this year in support of our fourth album, some thirty-five shows later. Over this time we've moved from our original instrumentation of cello, didjeridoo, modular-synth and drum machine to include samplers, keyboards, guitars, basses and a Powerbook running Max/MSP. The tracks you hear on this album are composites of different performances, some as many as three years apart. Our music is largely improvised, so no two shows are the same, and we tried to reflect this range of sound and styles in the composite tracks. As computers become so immersed in our cultural discourse that they become literally transparent, we're interested in highlighting the juxtaposition of technology with acoustic instrumentation and human improvisation, using electronics and computers in the framework of four people in a band performing on stage. We hope you enjoy the album. (liner notes by The Freight Elevator Quartet)

Tracklisting:

1. Pomoerotic {8:53}

2. Transform/Disappear {6:20}

3. Downtime is Becoming Less of an Option {8:32}

4. Seeming {6:01}

5. Acmend's Revenge {3:05}

6. Transparent {5:27}

7. How Does It Feel to Be Going Out of Style? {4:18}

8. Gilgamesh {4:22}

9. Bring Me My Mental Health {7:06}

10. Cellophane {1:48}

11. Ahmed Goes to Heaven {4:42}

12. Infrared {5:13}

13. Excerpt from 'Berlin: Symphony of a Great City' {1:49}

14. File Under Futurism {5:34}

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